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Why does O'brian feel the need to "lie" to the reader?
What satisfaction does O'brian get when telling an "untruthful" story?
Is telling a true story with added information still concer a true story?

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What was the purpose of Tim O'Brien lying about the war story?
Was there a moral to Tim's war story that he lied about?

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What was the purpose of Tim O'Brien lying about the war story?
Was there a moral to Tim's war story that he lied about

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Do you think that the quote “Often in a true war story there is not even a point, or else the point doesn't hit you until twenty years later, in your sleep, and you wake up and shake your wife and start telling the story to her, except when you get to the end you've forgotten the point again.” is trying to say that we all are trying to find a deeper meaning in our own story but, in reality there is no deeper meaning?

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how does sanders over exaggerating the story about music in the mountains help both O'Brien and himself believe the story?

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why do you think O'brein added the Water buffalo segment? what was it's importance?

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What would the world be like if civilians had the same view about death as soldiers in war?

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If someone exaggerates the truth, is it considered a lie?

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Do you agree with Tim O'Brien that it wasn't a war story, but a love story?

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In O'Brien's war story, why did Rat Kiley pet and offer the baby  buffalo food before torturing it?

What reaction do you think O'Brien attempts to elicit when revealing that baby buffalo story was a lie?

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what would of happened if O'Brien never told the story about the water buffalo? how would this impact the story later?

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Why do people feel more of a need to have an emotional response to when an animal is hurt than when a human dies or is hurt.

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Do you think Rat expected to receive a letter back from lemons sister?

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Why do you think more people felt more emotion to the water buffalo's death than to curt lemon's

why do you think O'brein added the Water buffalo segment? what was it's importance?

what do you think Mitchell Sanders was actually hearing in the jungle?

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- In the chapter,  "How to Tell a True War Story", do you think O'brien used the story of the baby buffalo dying as a way to recieve remorse or empathy from the readers? Based on the text, was that story a way for the readers t open their eyes towards Curt Lemon's death?

- How would you compare and contrast the death of the baby buffalo and Curt Lemon?

-What do you think the significance of including both stories of the death's of the baby buffalo and Curt Lemon

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1.Do you think Tim O'Brien brought up the baby water buffalo to get emotion out of us.

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1. What is O'Brien's first claim in this story?
2. What short story does O'Brien tell when discussing that a true war story can be identified by the questions one asks afterward?
3. What does the woman at the end of the section tell O'Brien about the story he is writing?

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Do you think if Tim hadn't lied people would of payed attention to his story?

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Why dose O'Brien have the need to get a reaction from the audience?
Is lying a bad thing?

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could the story about the baby buffalo true?

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1:based on these war stories would you think you would mentally be capable of being in a war.
2:did you honestly feel anything water buffalo.

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1.Explain Tim O'Brien's purpose for including the buffalo story even though it wasn't true?
2.How would this chapter have progressed if he had told the story the way it happened and not with over-exaggerating?

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What was the purpose of Tim O'Brien lying about the war story?
Was there a moral to Tim's war story that he lied about?

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-Why did O'Brien include this section into the book? Did it involve a moral?
-What did you think O'Brien meant when he said, " you hate it, but your eyes do not"?
- do you believe the statement, " you cant extract the meaning without unraveling the deeper meaning ", to be true?
-why do you think Mitchell sanders made the point to tell O'Brien that parts of his story were lies ?

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-Do you think you understand the chapter and what it's trying to say about a true war story or stories in general?
-Did baby buffalo story was a real event that happened?  why or why not?
If, so was there a point to the story?

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What was Tim O'Brien's definition of a "true war story" ? Do you agree or disagree with his opinions?
What was the purpose behind Tim O'Brien's add-on stories?
After reading this chapter, do you believe every story has to have a moral? Why or why not.